X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: bash: tar: command not found Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:28:48 -0500 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <20070411213540.GA30944@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Cheney, Christian wrote: learn.to/quote <-- please do (no TOFU*, in particular) And PCYMTNQREAIYR* while you are at it. (*http://cygwin.com/acronyms) > Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 01:57:33PM -0700, Cheney, Christian wrote: >> I have installed cygwin on Windows XP using the default setup. When I >> try to use tar, I am getting "bash: tar: command not found." If I try >> to reinstall tar using the setup utility, it copies some files, but > then >> gives a "no package" note, and tar still won't work in cygwin. Any >> ideas how to fix this? Thank you. > > The details mentioned here would probably help: > VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > Please expound. Been there, done that. Hence, the post. I didn't see cygcheck output attached to your previous post. Therefore, you either did not follow the instructions, or your mailer is broken. -- Matthew Not to be used as a flotation device. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/